"After a man dies, how long before you can make time with his wife?" #AmWriting #TheInfiniteVarietiesOfLoss
"He looked at Dolores like he owned her. Not the way you’d look at some treasure beyond counting, but the way you’d look at an animal you had to keep on a short leash." #AmWriting #TheInfiniteVarietiesOfLoss
"Give a person a little bit of success and all of a sudden they know what’s best. They pick up a dose of integrity, and they let it take the place of common sense."
#AmWriting #TheInfiniteVarietiesOfLoss
"She was mild and wide-eyed and susceptible to his every art. Agreeable. Amenable. A church-goer, which was all right with him as long as it didn’t prove contagious." #AmWriting #TheInfiniteVarietiesOfLoss
"The Opry had a long memory, and ever since that night ten years ago when a teen-aged Elvis had been welcomed as enthusiastically as the first boll weevil of springtime, management had been what you might call gunshy around newer acts." #AmWriting #TheInfiniteVarietiesOfLoss
"Jack didn’t care for music unless there was some woman around who did." #AmWriting #NextNovel #TheInfiniteVarietiesOfLoss